Different Users, Different Languages

[Patrick Smith]

David Chart wrote:
> I'd like to be able to set up two users to use different languages,
> English and Japanese, for everything, particularly X11. Both languages
> are installed on the system.
> 
> So far, I can, by changing /etc/sysconfig/i18n, set everyone to English
> or Japanese. However, this isn't what I want. Messing with sudoers to
> let the .bash_profile of each user change /etc/sysconfig/i18n would
> probably work, but would either be inconvenient (requiring me to type
> the password twice, I think), or a security nightmare (if I disable
> authentication).
> 
> Is there a sensible way to do this? I'm sure there must be, but I don't
> know where to look. Pointers welcome.

Set environment variables in each .bash_login.  E.g.,

	export LC_ALL=en	# English
	export LC_ALL=en_CA	# Canadian English

I don't know the code for Japanese; maybe ja?